Joyce Mercedes started DJ’ing in 1999. Joyce Mercedes has performed in more than 48 countries in almost every prestigious nightclub in Europe, North America, South-America as well as in the Far East. Shared stages with names such as John Digweed, Sasha, Paul van Dyk, and Derrick May. She Received her Audio Engineering degree in 2004 at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Amsterdam, and studied further on the more specialized course in Electronic Music Production. Joyce Mercedes also works regularly as a model, featuring in campaigns for Heineken, Campari, G-Star, Playboy, MAXIM and FHM magazines and has done various videoclips, commercials and guest roles in movies. She has started producing her own music as well and she launched her own label QOC-Recordings in 2007 and released varies underground dance music on it. Her first single “give it up” will be released as the debut single on april 2011.